Short Skilful Poems

Arthur&Georgina Gaskin
skilful&innovative from Birmingham
Arts&crafts was their life
a very creative husband&wife...

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Daily toil is yours

Bricks all laid in perfect form

Art from skilful hands





For my talented husband
have read a few great senryu today  and thought I'd try one....

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A skilful magician  - was glad and proud.
 Sitting in the cell, he did not lose  a heart.
Just clicking with  finger  he quickly took out
 Eggs, chickens and rabbits- from his shabby hat...

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You make me 
anticipate pleasure;
while you glide
across the floor.
I observe your
elegant contours,
your elbows,
and more…
Your pale eyelids,
marked eyelashes
like a skilful ink stroke.
You glance in my direction-
I return a smile....

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To thee I sing a dirge,
As I behold the mangled sight,
Pity, I couldn't turn back the hand of clock, or
Edit the disfigured pattern,
So grotesque as I watch, the
Time-worn piece in my front,
Reminding me of those far away years,
You came to be by my skilful hands....

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gestures
   free&loose
unconsidered
       assumptions
subject to invention
oftimes
open
      yet
        crystal clear-
pure
     joy
skilful
     realms of gold
                of longing
legends
        of
          the
              heart's
                 desire...

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Life is a restless ocean
I am a vessel adrift,
Life is a searing furnace
I am a broken twig.
Life is a searching stormwind
I am a tail-less kite,
Life is the night approaching
I am a bird in flight.
Life is a skilful hunter
I am a creature, wild,
Life is a patient teacher
I am an ignorant child.
Marj Bless...

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I've never been a gambler 
For I've never liked the odds
And out the horse racers
Seems a hell of a job

I don't like the pokies
For it seems a waste of time
Looking at the colours 
As they run around in kind

I am not skilful at cards 
For I could never bluff
So now I ponder hard
The odds is not enough.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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